First Home Buyers - March 31st Floating or fixed-rate loan: how to choose? Should I float or should I fix? It's a dilemma facing many New Zealanders. For the past five years Kiwis have kept hearing that interest rate rises are always just around the corner - yet …
Home Loans - March 31st Save big money on your mortgage Want to save thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars on your mortgage? Then read on. Many Kiwis just simply pay their mortgage every month without ever thinking of how to reduce costs. Canny home owners, …
Home Loans - March 31st How to side-step the house insurance policy traps Insurance is changing and those changes are huge. Anyone who owns a house in New Zealand needs to sit up and pay attention. The biggest change is that all the major insurers in this country will …
KiwiSaver Funds - March 31st Stomaching the risk Plenty of potential KiwiSavers are held back by their fear of making a mistake. The antidote to this is understanding their personal "risk profile" and that of their partner. Quite simply some people can stomach more …
Travel Insurance - March 31st Are we there yet? New Zealanders are an adventurous lot. According to Statistics New Zealand, Kiwis took a total of 2.17 million overseas trips in the twelve months to December 2012. Where do we go? Our top nine destinations …
